[{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"14-0132","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1428469200000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"A waterworks district created by the Red River Parish Police Jury must be petitioned by sixty percent (60%) of the Red River Parish residents or obtain approval by a majority vote of Parish property owners before acquiring a waterworks system through a donation.\r\nA non-profit corporation owning and operating a waterworks system must obtain approval from the Louisiana Public\r\nService Commission before it may donate the waterworks system to a waterworks district."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"14-0202","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1428555600000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"Neither Section 15(A) nor Section 20 of Article V of the 1974\r\nLouisiana Constitution prohibits the legislature from enacting\r\nlaws establishing new mayor’s courts. La. R.S. 33:453, enacted\r\nin 2008 and creating the Mayor’s Court of the City of Central\r\nwith a territorial jurisdiction extending throughout the City of\r\nCentral in East Baton Rouge Parish, is presumed constitutional\r\nand enforceable. To the extent inconsistent with this opinion, La.\r\nAtty. Gen. Op. Nos. 96-141, 89-263 and 77-170, are hereby\r\nrecalled."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"15-0001","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1428382800000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"The Metropolitan Human Services District may not purchase a membership in the local Chamber of Commerce, as such a\r\npurchase would be a prohibited use of public funds in violation of La. Const. art. VII, § 14. The Metropolitan Human Services District may solicit and accept donations from private entities or individuals."},{"Position":0,"DocId":0,"DocName":"15-0003","FileName":null,"DateUpdated":"\/Date(1428555600000)\/","OpinionNum":null,"Summary":"If Ebarb Waterworks District No. 1 determines that it may have\r\nliability or exposure as a result of supplying drinking water found\r\nto contain the amoeba, Naegleria Fowleri, then it would have the\r\nauthority to enter into a transaction to make a payment to\r\nresolve such liability or exposure and, in that event, the\r\ntransaction would not be a prohibited gratuitous transfer under\r\nLa. Const. art. VII, Sec. 14."}]